The distribution of economic loss associated with vessel accidents typically exhibits non-negative, continuous, positively skewed, and heavy-tailed characteristics. Another challenge in analyzing fishing vessel accidents is the absence of relevant factors. Ignoring such heterogeneity caused by unobserved factors potentially leads to inaccurate inferences. In the present study, a novel Bayesian random-parameter

Vehicle age plays a crucial role in crash occurrence and occupant injury severity, with older vehicles historically associated with more severe injury outcomes compared to newer models. This study investigates the temporal instability of specific injury-contributing factors for single-vehicle, single-occupant crashes involving vehicles equal or less than 3 years old at the time of the crash, using

Pedestrians are a vulnerable road user group, and assessing their crash risk at critical locations, such as signalized intersections, is crucial for developing targeted countermeasures. While conflict-based safety assessments using traffic conflict measures effectively estimate crash risk, they often overlook the heterogeneity of different motorized and non-motorized road users. Conversely, field-based

Modern streetview image data provide two types of valuable information: the objective built environment and humans’ subjective perception of the streetscape. In the road safety domain, the built environment has been identified as playing a significant role while indicators of human perception are commonly used to evaluate street quality in urban planning. However, studies examining the association

In recent years, the statistical assessment of crash injury severity data has increasingly begun to segment the available crash data into observational groups to explore the possibility that such groups may share the same estimated parameters. This method is commonly used to account for parameters that may shift over time, where the data is often segmented into groups based on observational year. Unfortunately

The underreporting of crash data is a well-documented issue in road safety literature, but few studies have focused on addressing this problem in the context of analyzing crash injury severities. This paper aims to provide an empirical assessment of the impact of underreporting issue using a hybrid approach in estimating injury severity for single-vehicle motorcycle crashes. Unlike traditional machine

Human drivers must quickly adjust to perturbations at tunnel entrances (i.e., the rapid switching of cross-sections, abrupt longitudinal changes in the driving environment, and changes in visual illumination, denoted “tunnel transition perturbations”) to regain control of their vehicles, especially when managing speed to prevent motor overshoot. Previous research has assessed drivers’ visual adaptation

This paper proposes a novel functional data analysis approach to investigate the time-dependent effect of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), specifically forward collision warnings, on driver speed reduction behavior. Existing aggregate measures compress temporal information within driver behavior profiles and fail to explicitly reveal the temporal dependency of such effect. With the proposed

Traffic conflict detection is essential for proactive road safety by identifying potential collisions before they occur. Existing methods rely on surrogate safety measures tailored to specific interactions (e.g., car-following, side-swiping, or path-crossing) and require varying thresholds in different traffic conditions. This variation leads to inconsistencies and limited adaptability of conflict